Tororo Steel Mill
Tororo Steel Mill , a Ugandan factory that is under construction, is planned to be the largest manufacturer of steel in East Africa and Central Africa, when completed in 2027. Owned by the Devki Group, a Kenyan conglomerate that manufacturers construction materials, the steel mill has planned production capacity of one million tons annually. Construction of Tororo Steel Mill is budgeted at US$500 million.
Location
The factories of TSM are in the commumity called Kayoro in Osukuru sub-county, outside the town of Tororo, in Tororo District, in the Eastern Region of Uganda. Kayoro lies approximately southwest of downtown Tororo, off the Tororo-Kampala Road. This is approximately, by road, east of Kampala, the capital and largest city of Uganda.Overview
The steel mill is under construction, by the Devki Group of Companies, an industrial conglomerate based in Kenya, with subsidiaries in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The conglomerate is led by its Executive Chairman, industrialist and philanthropist, Narendra Raval.The steel plant plans to use as raw material, the vast iron ore deposits in Uganda estimated at over 500 million tons in the districts of Kabale, Rubanda, Kisoro and Tororo. Using "blast technology", the factory plans to manufacture 1,000,000 tons of steel products annually starting in the fourth quarter of 2027.